Fabio Cian

Fabio Cian is a Researcher at the Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. He also holds a Research Scientist position at the Venice Centre for Climate Studies (VICCS) and has served as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics since 2016.

• Research Focus: Remote sensing, flood risk assessment, socio-environmental systems modeling, and integrated management of natural resources.
• Education: PhD candidate in Science and Management of Climate Change (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), Master's in Space Engineering (La Sapienza University of Rome), Bachelor's in Aerospace Engineering (University of Padua), and Erasmus exchange at University of Glasgow.

Research Highlights:

• Developed multi-temporal flood vulnerability indices using Earth observation and census data (2021).
• Advanced SAR and lidar integration for flood depth estimation (2018).
• Contributed to socio-environmental systems modeling for climate adaptation (2022).
• Explored high nature value farmland mapping via LULC data (2019).

Professional Experience: Visiting scholar at Columbia University (2016), researcher at German Aerospace Centre (DLR), and European Space Agency (ESA).